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Humoresque ***** (1946, Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 3534

‘One Of The Greatest Of Them All!’ Joan Crawford finds a wonderful vehicle for her unique personality and talents in director Jean Negulesco’s splendid 1946 soap opera. She gives a definitive, crazed performance in this […]

Apr, 05

Air Force **** (1943, John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, John Ridgley, George Tobias, James Brown, Harry Carey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3172

Director Howard Hawks’s extremely well made and rousing 1943 patriotic wartime flag-waving drama about the American crew of an Air Force Boeing B17 bomber named the Mary Ann on a Far East mission in 1941 […]

Dec, 19

Juarez **** (1939, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Gale Sondergaard, Brian Aherne, John Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 2704

Director William Dieterle’s stirring and starry 1939 historical epic stars Paul Muni as the Mexican lawyer, politician and revolutionary Benito Pablo Juárez García (21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872). Juárez resisted the French occupation […]

Jul, 26

Force of Evil ***** (1948, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 2556

Co-writer/director Abraham Polonsky’s dynamic, first-rate 1948 film noir crime thriller stars John Garfield, who gives a superlative performance as Joe Morse, a gangster’s attorney who lets his greed overcome his sense of morality. Morse is […]

Jun, 06

Body and Soul ***** (1947, John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 2386

Director Robert Rossen’s vintage, hard-hitting classic 1947 boxing movie is a knockout. It is hailed as the first great film about boxing and can be viewed as a moral tale about the destructive evil temptation […]

Apr, 13

The Breaking Point **** (1950, John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez) – Classic Movie Review 1347

Director Michael Curtiz and the Warner Bros studio go for a much more faithful version of Ernest Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not in 1950 and cast it strongly and ideally with John Garfield, […]

Jun, 21

The Postman Always Rings Twice ***** (1946, Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter) – Classic Movie Review 744

Based on the sizzling thriller novel by James M Cain, the 1946 movie The Postman Always Rings Twice is a beloved film noir classic. Cain thought Lana Turner was the perfect choice for lethal diner […]

Jan, 25

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